Breadcrumb Home > Brewers Brewer's: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: F E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z F is written on his face. F Sharp ff F.E.R.T. F.O.B. F's Fa' Fabian Society Fabian Soldiers Fabian Tactics Fabianism Fabila's sad Fate Fabius Fables Fabliaux Fabricius Fabulinus Fabulous Isles Face Face to Face Faces Face Faced Face-card Facil&eumk; Princeps Facings Façon de Parler Faction Factor Factotum Fad Fada Fadda Fadge Fadha Fadladeen' Faërie Faërie Queene Fag Fagged Out Fagin Fagot Fagot Votes Fagots Fahfah Faids Faience Faineant Faint Faint Hearted Fair Fair City Fair Game Fair Maid Fair-star Fair Trade Fair Way Fair and Square Fair fall you Fair Play is a Jewel Fairies Fairing Fairlimb Fairservice Fairy Fairy Darts Fairy Hillocks Fairy Ladies Fairy Land Fairy Loaves Fairy Money Fairy Rings Fairy Sparks Fairy of the Mine Fait Accompli Faith Faithful Fakar Fake Fakenham Ghost Fakir' Falcon Falcon Gentle Falcon Peregrine Fald-stool Faldistory Falernian Falkland Fal-lals Fall Fall Away Fall Flat Fall Foul Fall From Fall In Fall Off Fall Out Fall Sick Fall Through Fall to Fall Under Fall Upon Fall in With Fall into a Snare Fall of Man Fall of the Drop Fall Out of Fall Short of Fall Together by the Ears Fall Upon One's Feet Falling Bands Falling Sickness Falling Stars Fallow Land False False Ceiling Falstaff Falutin Familiar Familiar Spirits Familiarity Familists Family Fan Fan-light Fanatic Fancy Fancy-free Fancy Man Fancy-sick Fanesii Fanfaron Fanfaronade Fang Fangs Fangled Fanny Fern Fantigue Fantoccini Fantom-corn Fantom-fellow Fantom-flesh Far and Away Far Cry from Far fetched Far Gone Far Niente Farce Farceur Farcy Fare Fare Well Farina Farinata Farleu Farm Farmer George Farmers Farnese Bull Farnese Hercules Faroese Farrago Farringdon Ward Farthing Farthingalo Faryndon Inn Fascination Fashion Fashion of Speech Fast Girl Fast Man Fast and Loose Fasti Fasting Fat Fat Men Fat as a Porpoise Fata Fata Morgana Fatal Gifts Fate Fates Father Father Mathew Father Neptune Father Norbert Father Paul Father Prout Father Thames Father Thoughtful Father of Waters Father of his Country Father of the People Fathers of the Church Fathers of the Greek Church Fathers of the Latin Church Fathom Fatima Fatted Calf Fatua Mulier Fault Faults Fauna Faust Faux-jour Faux Pas Favonius Favours Favourite Favourites Fay Faye Fazio Fear Fortress Fearless Feast of Reason Feasts Feather Feather in Your Cap Feather One's Nest Feather One's Oar Feather Stone Feathers Feature February Fecit Fecula Federal States Fee Fee-farm-rent Fee-penny Fee Simple Fee-tail Feeble Feed of Corn Feet Fehm-gericht Felician Felix Felixmarte Fell Fellow Commoner Felo de Se Feme-covert Feme-sole Femme de Chambre Femynye Fen Nightingale Fence Month Fenchurch Street Fencible Regiments Fenella Fenians Fennel Fenrir Fenton Feræ Naturæ Feramorz Ferdinand Ferdinando Ferdosi Ferguson Fern Fern Seed Fernando Florestan Ferney Ferohers Ferracute Ferragus Ferrara Ferrau Ferrex and Porrex Ferumbras Fescennine Verses Fess Fest Fetch Fetches Fetiche Fetter Lane Fettle Feu de Joie Feud Feudal Feudal System Feuillants Feuilleton Fever-Iurdan Fever-lurk Fey Fezon Fi Fi. Fa. Fiacre Fian Fiars Fiasco Fiat Fib Fico Fiddle Fiddle About Fiddle-de-dee! Fiddle-faddle Fiddleback Fiddler Fiddler's Fare Fiddler's Green Fiddler's Money Fiddler's News Fiddlestick Fiddlesticks! Fidele Fidelio Fides Fides Carbonarii Field Field-day Field Marshal Field Officer Field Pieces Field Works Field of Ice Field of Vision Field of the Cloth of Gold Field of the Forty Footsteps Fielding Fierabras Fifteen decisive Battles Fifth-Monarchy Men Fig Fig Sunday Fig-tree Figs Figged out Figaro Fight Fight Shy Fighting-cocks Fighting Fifth Fighting Kings Fighting Prelate Fighting the Tiger Fighting with Gloves on Figure Figure-head Figure of Fun Figures Filch File Filia Dolorosa Filibuster Filioque Controversy Fill-dyke Fillet Filomena Filter Fin Finality John Finance Finch Lane Find Findon Haddocks Findy Fine Arts Fine as Fivepence Fine-ear Finetor Fingal Fingal's Cave Finger Finger and Glove Finger in the Pie Finger Benediction Finger-stall Fingers Fingered Fingle-fangle Finished to the Finger-nail Finny Tribe Finsbury Fion Fir-cone Fir-tree Fire Fire Away! Fire First Fire-balloon Fire-brand Fire-drake Fire-eaters Fire-new Fire-ship Fire Up Fire Worship Fire and Sword Fire and Water Firm as a Rock First-class Hard Labour First-fruits First Water First Gentleman of Europe First Grenadier of France First Stroke is Half the Battle Fish Fish-day Fish-wife Fish and Flesh Fish in Troubled Water Fish it Out Fisher of Souls Fisherman Fishing Fisk Fitz Fitz-Fulke Fitzwilliam Museum Five Five-minute Clause Five Nations Five Points Five Wits Fiver Fives Fix Fixed Air Fixed Oils Fixed Stars Fixt Flaccus Flag Flag, Flags Flag Lieutenant Flag-officer Flag-ship Flag Signals Flag's Down Flag of Distress Flagellants Flam Flamberge Flamboyant Architecture Flame Flaming Flaming Swords Flaminian Way Flanders Flanders' Babies Flanders' Mare Flaneur Flap-dragons Flare-up Flash Flash Men Flat Flat-fish Flat Milk Flat Race Flat Simplicity Flatterer Flatterers Flay a Fox Flea Flea-bite Flea's Jump Fleance Fleche Flecknoe Fledgeby Flee the Falcon Fleeced Fleet Book Evidence Fleet Marriages Fleet Street Fleet of the Desert Flemish Account Flemish School Flesh and Blood Flesh-pots Fleshed Fleshly School Fleta Fleur-de-Luce Fleurs-de-Lys Flibbertigibbet Flic Flick Flies Fling Fling Herself at my Head Flins Flint Flint Implements Flint Jack Flipper Flirt Flittermouse Flo Floated Floaters Floating Academy Flogging the Dead Horse Flogged by Deputy Flood Floor Floorer Flora Flora's Dial Florence Florentine Diamond Florentius Florian Floriani Florid Architecture Florida Florimel Florimel's Girdle Florin Florisando Florisel of Nice'a Florismart Florizel Flotsam and Jetson Flower Games Flower Sermon Flower of Chivalry Flower of Kings Flower of Paradise Flower of the Levant Flowers and Trees Flowers and Trees with Christian Traditions Flowers at Funerals Flowered Robes Flowing Philosophers Fluellen Fluke Flummery Flummux Flummuxed Flunkey Flur Flush Flush of Money Flute Flutter Flutter the Dovecotes Fly Fly-boy Fly a Kite Fly-by-night Fly in One's Face Fly in the Face of Danger Fly in the Face of Providence Fly Open Fly Out at Flying Colours Flying Dutchman Flying without Wings Flyman's Plot Fog-eater Fogie Fo-hi Foil Folio Folk Folk Fairies Folk-lore Folk-mote Follets Follow Follower Folly Fond Fons et Origo Font Fontarabia Food Food for Powder Foods and Wines Fool Fool Thinks Fool in his Sleeve Fool or Physician at Forty Fools Fool's Bolt Fool's Paradise Foolscap Foot Foot-breadth Foot-lights Foot Monsters Foot-notes Foot-pound Foot of a Page Footing Footman's Wand Footmen Fop's Alley Foppington Forbears Forbës Forbidden Fruit Foreible Feeble School Ford Fordelis Fore Fore-and-Aft Forecastle Foreclose Fore-shortened Forfar Forget-me-nots of the Angels Forgive, blest Shade Forgiveness Fork Out Forks Forked Cap Forlorn Hope Forlot Forma Pauperis Fortiter in Re Fortunate Islands Fortunatus Fortune Fortunio Forty Forty Stripes save One Forty Thieves Forty Winks Forty-five Forwards Foscari Foss Foss-way Fossa et Furca Fossils Foster Fou Drunk Foul Proof Foul-weather Jack Fountain of Death Fountain of Youth Four Kings Four Letters Four Masters Fourierism Fourierists Fourteen Fourteen Hundred Fourth Estate of the Realm Fourth of July Fowler Fox Fox-fire Fox-tail Fox's Sleep Foxed Foxglove Foxites Foxy Fra Diavolo Fracassus Fradubio Frame of Mind France Francesca Francesca da Rimini Francis's Distemper Franciscans Frangipani Frangipani Pudding Frank Frank Pledge Frankeleynes Tale Frankenstein Frankforters Franklin Frankum's Night Frantic Fraserian Fraserian Group Frater Frateretto Fratery Fraticellians Fre'a Free Free Bench Free Coup Free Lances Free Lances of Life Free Spirit Free Trade Freebooter Freeman Freeman of Bucks Freeman's Quay Freemasons Freeport Freestone Freethinker Freezing-point Freischütz Freki and Geri French Cream French Leave French of Stratford atte Bowe Frenchman Fresco-painting Freshman Freston Frey Freyja Friar Friar Bungay Friar Dominic Friar Gerund Friar John Friar Laurence Friar Rush Friar Tuck Friar's Heel Friar's Lanthorn Friars Friars Major Friars Minor Friar's Tale Fribble Friday Friday Street Friend Friend at Court Friend in Need Friend of Man Friends ... Enemies Friendly Suit Friendship Friendships Broken Frigga Frilingi Fringe Frippery Frisket Frith Frithiof Frithiof's Sword Fritz Frog Frog's March Frogs Frollo Fronde Frondeur Frontino Frost Frost Saints Froth Froude's Cat Frozen Music Frozen Words Frumentius Fry. Frying-pan Fub Fuchs Fudge Fudge Family Fuel Fuga ad Salices Fuggers Fugleman Fulhams Full Cry Full Dress Full Fig Full Swing Fulsome Fum Fum the Fourth Fumage Fume Fun Fund Funds Funeral Funeral Banquet Funeral Games Fungoso Funk Funny Bone Furbelow Furca Furcam et Flagellum Furies Furies of the Guillotine Furor Fusberta Fusiliers Fuss Fustian Fustian Words Futile Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related Content Allusions Foreign Words and Phrases Latin and Greek Word Elements Names: Their Origins and Meanings Old Testament Names Mythology Ancient Greek Literature & Mythology The Bible (King James version) The Koran (translation by J. M. 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E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z F is written on his face. F Sharp ff F.E.R.T. F.O.B. F's Fa' Fabian Society Fabian Soldiers Fabian Tactics Fabianism Fabila's sad Fate Fabius Fables Fabliaux Fabricius Fabulinus Fabulous Isles Face Face to Face Faces Face Faced Face-card Facil&eumk; Princeps Facings Façon de Parler Faction Factor Factotum Fad Fada Fadda Fadge Fadha Fadladeen' Faërie Faërie Queene Fag Fagged Out Fagin Fagot Fagot Votes Fagots Fahfah Faids Faience Faineant Faint Faint Hearted Fair Fair City Fair Game Fair Maid Fair-star Fair Trade Fair Way Fair and Square Fair fall you Fair Play is a Jewel Fairies Fairing Fairlimb Fairservice Fairy Fairy Darts Fairy Hillocks Fairy Ladies Fairy Land Fairy Loaves Fairy Money Fairy Rings Fairy Sparks Fairy of the Mine Fait Accompli Faith Faithful Fakar Fake Fakenham Ghost Fakir' Falcon Falcon Gentle Falcon Peregrine Fald-stool Faldistory Falernian Falkland Fal-lals Fall Fall Away Fall Flat Fall Foul Fall From Fall In Fall Off Fall Out Fall Sick Fall Through Fall to Fall Under Fall Upon Fall in With Fall into a Snare Fall of Man Fall of the Drop Fall Out of Fall Short of Fall Together by the Ears Fall Upon One's Feet Falling Bands Falling Sickness Falling Stars Fallow Land False False Ceiling Falstaff Falutin Familiar Familiar Spirits Familiarity Familists Family Fan Fan-light Fanatic Fancy Fancy-free Fancy Man Fancy-sick Fanesii Fanfaron Fanfaronade Fang Fangs Fangled Fanny Fern Fantigue Fantoccini Fantom-corn Fantom-fellow Fantom-flesh Far and Away Far Cry from Far fetched Far Gone Far Niente Farce Farceur Farcy Fare Fare Well Farina Farinata Farleu Farm Farmer George Farmers Farnese Bull Farnese Hercules Faroese Farrago Farringdon Ward Farthing Farthingalo Faryndon Inn Fascination Fashion Fashion of Speech Fast Girl Fast Man Fast and Loose Fasti Fasting Fat Fat Men Fat as a Porpoise Fata Fata Morgana Fatal Gifts Fate Fates Father Father Mathew Father Neptune Father Norbert Father Paul Father Prout Father Thames Father Thoughtful Father of Waters Father of his Country Father of the People Fathers of the Church Fathers of the Greek Church Fathers of the Latin Church Fathom Fatima Fatted Calf Fatua Mulier Fault Faults Fauna Faust Faux-jour Faux Pas Favonius Favours Favourite Favourites Fay Faye Fazio Fear Fortress Fearless Feast of Reason Feasts Feather Feather in Your Cap Feather One's Nest Feather One's Oar Feather Stone Feathers Feature February Fecit Fecula Federal States Fee Fee-farm-rent Fee-penny Fee Simple Fee-tail Feeble Feed of Corn Feet Fehm-gericht Felician Felix Felixmarte Fell Fellow Commoner Felo de Se Feme-covert Feme-sole Femme de Chambre Femynye Fen Nightingale Fence Month Fenchurch Street Fencible Regiments Fenella Fenians Fennel Fenrir Fenton Feræ Naturæ Feramorz Ferdinand Ferdinando Ferdosi Ferguson Fern Fern Seed Fernando Florestan Ferney Ferohers Ferracute Ferragus Ferrara Ferrau Ferrex and Porrex Ferumbras Fescennine Verses Fess Fest Fetch Fetches Fetiche Fetter Lane Fettle Feu de Joie Feud Feudal Feudal System Feuillants Feuilleton Fever-Iurdan Fever-lurk Fey Fezon Fi Fi. Fa. Fiacre Fian Fiars Fiasco Fiat Fib Fico Fiddle Fiddle About Fiddle-de-dee! Fiddle-faddle Fiddleback Fiddler Fiddler's Fare Fiddler's Green Fiddler's Money Fiddler's News Fiddlestick Fiddlesticks! Fidele Fidelio Fides Fides Carbonarii Field Field-day Field Marshal Field Officer Field Pieces Field Works Field of Ice Field of Vision Field of the Cloth of Gold Field of the Forty Footsteps Fielding Fierabras Fifteen decisive Battles Fifth-Monarchy Men Fig Fig Sunday Fig-tree Figs Figged out Figaro Fight Fight Shy Fighting-cocks Fighting Fifth Fighting Kings Fighting Prelate Fighting the Tiger Fighting with Gloves on Figure Figure-head Figure of Fun Figures Filch File Filia Dolorosa Filibuster Filioque Controversy Fill-dyke Fillet Filomena Filter Fin Finality John Finance Finch Lane Find Findon Haddocks Findy Fine Arts Fine as Fivepence Fine-ear Finetor Fingal Fingal's Cave Finger Finger and Glove Finger in the Pie Finger Benediction Finger-stall Fingers Fingered Fingle-fangle Finished to the Finger-nail Finny Tribe Finsbury Fion Fir-cone Fir-tree Fire Fire Away! Fire First Fire-balloon Fire-brand Fire-drake Fire-eaters Fire-new Fire-ship Fire Up Fire Worship Fire and Sword Fire and Water Firm as a Rock First-class Hard Labour First-fruits First Water First Gentleman of Europe First Grenadier of France First Stroke is Half the Battle Fish Fish-day Fish-wife Fish and Flesh Fish in Troubled Water Fish it Out Fisher of Souls Fisherman Fishing Fisk Fitz Fitz-Fulke Fitzwilliam Museum Five Five-minute Clause Five Nations Five Points Five Wits Fiver Fives Fix Fixed Air Fixed Oils Fixed Stars Fixt Flaccus Flag Flag, Flags Flag Lieutenant Flag-officer Flag-ship Flag Signals Flag's Down Flag of Distress Flagellants Flam Flamberge Flamboyant Architecture Flame Flaming Flaming Swords Flaminian Way Flanders Flanders' Babies Flanders' Mare Flaneur Flap-dragons Flare-up Flash Flash Men Flat Flat-fish Flat Milk Flat Race Flat Simplicity Flatterer Flatterers Flay a Fox Flea Flea-bite Flea's Jump Fleance Fleche Flecknoe Fledgeby Flee the Falcon Fleeced Fleet Book Evidence Fleet Marriages Fleet Street Fleet of the Desert Flemish Account Flemish School Flesh and Blood Flesh-pots Fleshed Fleshly School Fleta Fleur-de-Luce Fleurs-de-Lys Flibbertigibbet Flic Flick Flies Fling Fling Herself at my Head Flins Flint Flint Implements Flint Jack Flipper Flirt Flittermouse Flo Floated Floaters Floating Academy Flogging the Dead Horse Flogged by Deputy Flood Floor Floorer Flora Flora's Dial Florence Florentine Diamond Florentius Florian Floriani Florid Architecture Florida Florimel Florimel's Girdle Florin Florisando Florisel of Nice'a Florismart Florizel Flotsam and Jetson Flower Games Flower Sermon Flower of Chivalry Flower of Kings Flower of Paradise Flower of the Levant Flowers and Trees Flowers and Trees with Christian Traditions Flowers at Funerals Flowered Robes Flowing Philosophers Fluellen Fluke Flummery Flummux Flummuxed Flunkey Flur Flush Flush of Money Flute Flutter Flutter the Dovecotes Fly Fly-boy Fly a Kite Fly-by-night Fly in One's Face Fly in the Face of Danger Fly in the Face of Providence Fly Open Fly Out at Flying Colours Flying Dutchman Flying without Wings Flyman's Plot Fog-eater Fogie Fo-hi Foil Folio Folk Folk Fairies Folk-lore Folk-mote Follets Follow Follower Folly Fond Fons et Origo Font Fontarabia Food Food for Powder Foods and Wines Fool Fool Thinks Fool in his Sleeve Fool or Physician at Forty Fools Fool's Bolt Fool's Paradise Foolscap Foot Foot-breadth Foot-lights Foot Monsters Foot-notes Foot-pound Foot of a Page Footing Footman's Wand Footmen Fop's Alley Foppington Forbears Forbës Forbidden Fruit Foreible Feeble School Ford Fordelis Fore Fore-and-Aft Forecastle Foreclose Fore-shortened Forfar Forget-me-nots of the Angels Forgive, blest Shade Forgiveness Fork Out Forks Forked Cap Forlorn Hope Forlot Forma Pauperis Fortiter in Re Fortunate Islands Fortunatus Fortune Fortunio Forty Forty Stripes save One Forty Thieves Forty Winks Forty-five Forwards Foscari Foss Foss-way Fossa et Furca Fossils Foster Fou Drunk Foul Proof Foul-weather Jack Fountain of Death Fountain of Youth Four Kings Four Letters Four Masters Fourierism Fourierists Fourteen Fourteen Hundred Fourth Estate of the Realm Fourth of July Fowler Fox Fox-fire Fox-tail Fox's Sleep Foxed Foxglove Foxites Foxy Fra Diavolo Fracassus Fradubio Frame of Mind France Francesca Francesca da Rimini Francis's Distemper Franciscans Frangipani Frangipani Pudding Frank Frank Pledge Frankeleynes Tale Frankenstein Frankforters Franklin Frankum's Night Frantic Fraserian Fraserian Group Frater Frateretto Fratery Fraticellians Fre'a Free Free Bench Free Coup Free Lances Free Lances of Life Free Spirit Free Trade Freebooter Freeman Freeman of Bucks Freeman's Quay Freemasons Freeport Freestone Freethinker Freezing-point Freischütz Freki and Geri French Cream French Leave French of Stratford atte Bowe Frenchman Fresco-painting Freshman Freston Frey Freyja Friar Friar Bungay Friar Dominic Friar Gerund Friar John Friar Laurence Friar Rush Friar Tuck Friar's Heel Friar's Lanthorn Friars Friars Major Friars Minor Friar's Tale Fribble Friday Friday Street Friend Friend at Court Friend in Need Friend of Man Friends ... Enemies Friendly Suit Friendship Friendships Broken Frigga Frilingi Fringe Frippery Frisket Frith Frithiof Frithiof's Sword Fritz Frog Frog's March Frogs Frollo Fronde Frondeur Frontino Frost Frost Saints Froth Froude's Cat Frozen Music Frozen Words Frumentius Fry. Frying-pan Fub Fuchs Fudge Fudge Family Fuel Fuga ad Salices Fuggers Fugleman Fulhams Full Cry Full Dress Full Fig Full Swing Fulsome Fum Fum the Fourth Fumage Fume Fun Fund Funds Funeral Funeral Banquet Funeral Games Fungoso Funk Funny Bone Furbelow Furca Furcam et Flagellum Furies Furies of the Guillotine Furor Fusberta Fusiliers Fuss Fustian Fustian Words Futile Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related Content Allusions Foreign Words and Phrases Latin and Greek Word Elements Names: Their Origins and Meanings Old Testament Names Mythology Ancient Greek Literature & Mythology The Bible (King James version) The Koran (translation by J. M. Rodwell) Shakespeare's Plays Tales from Shakespeare (Charles and Mary Lamb) Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language